Murderer Richard Matt who escaped a NY prison with a pal in 2015, sparking a nationwide manhunt before he was shot dead, may have killed a woman in 1993.
White men in pickup trucks chased Ahmaud Arbery for five minutes, and one threatened to shoot him, as they cut off his escape from a Georgia subdivision and ultimately killed the 25-year-old Black man with a shotgun, a prosecutor told a trial jury Friday.
A Baltimore County councilman is speaking out this week about a reported rise in crime in the area, arguing that prosecution policies recently implemented by the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City, Marilyn Mosby, have created a "message of permissiveness."
The first man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was acting “belligerently” that night but did not appear to pose a serious threat to anyone, a witness testified Friday at Rittenhouse's murder trial.
Opening statements began Friday in the murder trial of three White men charged in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, with a prosecutor telling jurors that faulty assumptions led them to chase down the 25-year-old Black man. Arbery's killing was largely ignored until a leaked cellphone video stirred outrage that deepened a national reckoning over racial injustice.
A woman has been charged with child endangerment in the August fire deaths of her five young children, who she allegedly left in a southwest Illinois apartment without adult supervision.
A Chicago police officer charged with the shooting death of her husband, who is also a cop on the force, was threatening to kill herself when they struggled over the weapon and it went off, prosecutors said.
The superintendent of the Loudoun County Public Schools announced he is launching an “independent review” into the school district's handling of recent sexual misconduct allegations at Stone Bridge and Broad Run high schools.
The first man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was acting “belligerently” that night but did not appear to pose a serious threat to anyone
Jurors in the trial of three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery heard Friday that the shooter's first words to a responding officer were, "I just f--king killing somebody!"
The Cook County Board of Commissioners reinstated their “firearm and ammunition tax” after it was struck down by the Illinois Supreme Court in October.